Description
Once we’ve found a great spot for wild camping, I set off on the back of a moped to look for the Konkouré waterfall. Due to all sorts of communication problems, the journey takes three times as long as it should, but I get there. It turns out to be the meeting place for the local youngsters on a Sunday evening.
Before we set off again, we take a short walk through the jungle where we spent the night. Cooking is done over a wood or charcoal fire. We see men making charcoal by covering wood with earth and letting it smoulder. Some people are working in a rice field, whilst others are busy with enormous bamboo pipes.
We visit the waterfall once more – it’s quiet there now – and continue on our way towards Conakry, the capital of Guinea. The road is much better than yesterday’s N5, but we’re still not making particularly fast progress. The countless villages and the lorries climbing at a snail’s pace – which, after a working life in France or Spain, were not allowed to retire but are instead put through their paces day in, day out – combined with the mopeds whizzing past, mean we’re not really making much headway.
But unlike the tourists with drivers we met, who lost a lot of time and money at police checkpoints, we aren’t stopped.
We visited Guinea on our overland trip by car (a Toyota LandCruiser 4WD campervan) from West-Africa; see our channel https://www.youtube.com/user/JanvanBekkum for hundreds of clips. More clips of Guinea can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMYlw_C7EP8KqyTKPnPCZ38MjsZxf_bkB.
Music and/or sound effects:
- 'Silver Flame' by Kevin MacLeod. Link: www.incompetech.com. License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/;
- 'Basic Implosion' by Kevin MacLeod. Link: www.incompetech.com. License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/;
- 'Symphony of the Streets. Hip-Hop Background Music for video 60 second' created by Maksim Dudchyk and uploadexd from Pixbay (https://pixabay.com/nl/music/orkestraal-symphony-of-the-streets-hip-hop-background-music-for-video-60-second-476679/).;
- 'Calm inspiring technology logo short version' created by Alex Zavesa, distributed by Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/film-special-effects-calm-inspiring-technology-logo-short-version-518993/).